Model Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 January 1987. Farmhouse.
Model Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- high-shingle-hawk
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 January 1987
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Model Farmhouse, Milton Hill, St. Cuthbert Out
- OS grid reference
- ST 541 472
- Coordinates
- 51.2228, -2.65804
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Model Farmhouse is a farmhouse that dates from the 17th century, with alterations from the 18th century and 20th century. It features whitewashed roughcast and a slate roof divided into two sections, with coped verges. The building has one ashlar stack and two rendered stacks, with the right stack having a projecting chimney breast with offsets. The farmhouse is designed in an L-plan and has two storeys. The main front consists of four bays, with the left side featuring 3-light casements, while the right side has 2, 3, and 4-light stone mullioned windows on the ground floor, which include a stopped label. The door opening is nearly central and is accompanied by a 20th-century slated porch.
Local climate
Model Farmhouse receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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